The Uncanny Valley is a phrase often employed by CGI animators to describe the seemingly impassable gulf between reality and simulated reality, when it comes to recreating humans in a computer. Get it wrong, and CGI figures sport a creepy, dead-eyed oddness which fails to convince.

We suggest that the computer animators of today take their inspiration from wax sculptors - who successfully create pretend celebrities at slightly boring museums like Madame Tussauds. Here are fifteen of the greatest wax celebrity likenesses ever created.

Huzzah. I'm always nervous with these "features", whether I'll be the only one who is amused by them.

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Yanporp

13/8/2015 02:07:18 pm

Very handsome crab.

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jimbobmcgee

13/8/2015 05:49:23 pm

Sean Bean might be the best thing I've seen all week...

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wuntyphyve

14/8/2015 06:22:40 am

Thought it was safe to read this article in work. I just snorted so loud that I'm now afraid to leave my desk for fear of violent reprisals. I held it together as far as Jedward then lost it completely.